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This retro art print is titled 'I Want You for the U.S. Army' - vintage American advertising art

This retro art print is titled 'I Want You for the U.S. Army'

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Books on Vintage Art

Here we have a great range of books about vintage advertising posters, record graphics, movie posters and other popular culture, many featuring 100s of examples of vintage art in their pages, discussing the artists and background of the era they were produced in.  Whatever the context, the books on this page all celebrate the retro style we've devoted this website to!

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Click Here to Buy Vintage Spot Illustrations of Children: 795 Cuts from the Teens and Twenties - This Dover publication is a wonderful collection of cuts from magazines and children's publications from the 1910's and 1920's.

Vintage Spot Illustrations of Children: 795 Cuts from the Teens and Twenties
by Judy M. Johnson (Editor)		 Click Here to Buy In the Groove: Vintage Record Graphics, 1940-1960 - As readers tour more than 300 sensational album covers from the '40s and '50s they'll find the "real thing": the great covers by the great designers for the musical greats of yesteryear.

In the Groove: Vintage Record Graphics, 1940-1960
by Eric Kohler, Tony Bennett		 Click Here to Buy Moments of Childhood: Vintage Poster Book for the Nursery - Moments Of Childhood: Vintage Poster Book For The Nursery, features a stunning collection of twelve of the most beautiful and timeless children's book illustrations, now reproduced for all to enjoy once again.

Moments of Childhood: Vintage Poster Book for the Nursery
by Edelen Wille		 Click Here to Buy Retro Stud: Muscle Movie Posters from Around the World - Retro Stud displays beautifully reproduced artwork from around the world, replete with the sly sexuality and lithographed excitement that was typical of these posters.

Retro Stud: Muscle Movie Posters from Around the World
by David Chapman
Click Here to Buy Vintage Neon - A tribute to the forgotten signmakers of the 1920's through the present. Lots of color pictures contributed by neon sign enthusiasts from around the country.

Vintage Neon
by Len Davidson		 Click Here to Buy All-American Ads of the 40s - Discover America through this incredible collection of ads from the 1940s and 50s. Packaged foods, cars, travel, technology, liquor, cigarettes, movies, appliances, furniture, toothpaste; products and services the American consumer needed, even if they sometimes didn’t know it until Madison Avenue told them.

All-American Ads of the 40s
by Jim Heimann		 Click Here to Buy All-American Ads of the 50s - All-American Ads of the 50s offers page after page of products that made up the happy-days decade. The start of the cold war spurred a buying frenzy and a craze for new technology that required ad campaigns to match. The nuclear age left its mark all over the advertisements, with a spotlight on planes, rockets, and even mushroom clouds. Shiny, big, beautiful cars abound, styled to keep up with the space age.

All-American Ads of the 50s
by Jim Heimann		 Click Here to Buy All American Ads of the 60's - With the consumerist euphoria of the fifties still going strong and the race to the moon at its height, the mood of advertising in the sixties was cheerful, optimistic, and at times, revolutionary. The decade's ads touted perceived progress (such as tang and instant omelets-"just add water") while striving to reinforce good old American values.

All American Ads of the 60's
by Jim Heimann
Click Here to Buy Retro Ride: Advertising Art of the American Automobile - This oversize book is a striking collection of print advertisements promoting American cars from the 1920s to the 1960s, which, according to collector Swan, was the "heyday of American print advertising."

Retro Ride: Advertising Art of the American Automobile
by Tony Swan		 Click Here to Buy Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster, 1870-1950 - This lavishly illustrated history of the American railroad poster whisks us away to an era when the rails were king. These enticing advertisements to visit the cities and landmarks of the growing United States make for a truly sentimental journey--and a luscious feast for the eyes!

Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster, 1870-1950
by Michael E. Zega, John E. Gruber		 Click Here to Buy Posters American Style - A handsome survey of a century of vivid images that rallied support for such mainstays of civilization as war, peace, movies, psychedelic rock bands, and Levy's rye bread.

Posters American Style
by Therese Thau Heyman		 Click Here to Buy Film Posters of the 50's: The Essential Movies of the Decade - The superb posters in this book present the full range of images-from stark to sizzling-that enticed international cinema audiences in the 1950s.

Film Posters of the 50's: The Essential Movies of the Decade
by Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh
Click Here to Buy Best Pictures' Movie Posters - It is filled with pictures representing the best of Hollywood--all contenders for Oscar's Best Picture are featured with a movie poster representation. Includes some rarely seen poster art, foreign posters, and multiple sized images. Excellent reference and enjoyable volume to pick up over and over.

Best Pictures' Movie Posters
by Bruce Hershenson, Richard Allen		 Click Here to Buy Vintage Hollywood Posters - This auction catalog has the best variety of items from cowboys to cartoons, comedy to crime, creatures to classics, with your basic super heroes thrown in for good measure. It is by far one of the only books you can get that actually shows some of the most rare posters of the early 1900's.

Vintage Hollywood Posters
by Richard Allen, Bruce Hershenson		 Click Here to Buy Vintage Hollywood Posters II - These are beautifully produced allowing me to really understand how a movie was promoted when first released. The best posters have always been works of art but as they have become collectibles it has become expensive for most of us to own older posters. These books certainly make it possible to appreciate the beauty of the design and graphics.

Vintage Hollywood Posters II
by Bruce Hershenson		 Click Here to Buy Vintage Hollywood Posters III

Vintage Hollywood Posters III
by Bruce Hershenson
Click Here to Buy Cine Mexicano: Posters from the Golden Age 1936-1956 - Sultry bandidas, gut-busting cómicos, and terrifying monstruos--they all make appearances in Cine Mexicano. Combining art deco style with pulp fiction sensationalism, the more than 150 movie posters in Cine Mexicano are culled from the Agrasánchez Film Archive--the largest print collection of its kind.

Cine Mexicano: Posters from the Golden Age 1936-1956
by Rogelio Agrasanchez		 Click Here to Buy Looping the Loop: Posters of Flight - Great book of old airshow advertising posters from Europe. The posters date from the 1880's to World War One.

Looping the Loop: Posters of Flight
by Henry Serrano Villard		 Click Here to Buy Railway Posters 1923-1947: From the Collection of the National Railway Museum, York - This book is chockablock with color illustrations of wonderful British railway posters from that medium's golden age, the creation of the Big Four in 1923 until their nationalization effective January 1, 1948.

Railway Posters 1923-1947: From the Collection of the National Railway Museum, York
by Beverley Cole		 Click Here to Buy The Art of Whisky: A Deluxe Blend of Historic Posters from the Public Record Office - Superb collection of over 70 nineteenth and early twentieth century posters and showcards designed to advertise the Scotch and Irish whiskies of the time.

The Art of Whisky: A Deluxe Blend of Historic Posters from the Public Record Office
by Jim Murray

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